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…Interesting. But again, if do the galaxy brain thing and we say we can embed robots in the physical world, give them sensory motor affordances all the rest of it, you know, are many replies to the Chinese room argument about this, like the robot replying type. Yeah, yeah. You know, would they have a little bit more understanding? Yeah, I mean, that's getting more along the lines of the kind of thing that could have understanding. I think there's also more relevant stuff in the background of what it is to be a biological thing, in that some things are inherently meaningful to you and relevant to you because they're connected with the demands that the challenges of your environment place to you. Like I was saying before, you know, life is a Being alive is a way of being always in a situation that is problematic to you. So saliency and meaning, I think, are connected to that. It's not to say that you couldn't have robots with more and more precarious lifelike situations and maybe, I don't know, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that then you start seeing understanding in ways that are more like that as well. Let's talk a little bit about Heidegger. So he spoke a lot about our relationship with technology, and I know this is something you've been thinking about. Can you tell us about that?…

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